# Episode 097 - Poetic Character, Secret Building & MAGIC Show

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 29 Jan 2025, 53 min.

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Do you know which fictional characters did the poet William Ernest Henley and his daughter inspire? Do you know which building is considered "London's worst kept secret"? Do you know which TV show where the first letters of the lead characters' names spelt "MAGIC"? Tune in to find out!! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@areyouquizzingme/podcasts

## Transcript

[0:00] Welcome to Are You Quizzing Me. I am Vineet Nair with my Co host
[0:04] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia
[0:07] podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, pop culture and so much more.
[0:14] Let's get quizzing and we're back for episode number 97 of
[0:21] Are You Quizzing me? Your favorite quizzing and
[0:24] trivia podcast show. Aditya and I are back for
[0:27] another round of quizzing. And let's sort of this episode,
[0:30] like always, with an audience question.
[0:33] And today's audience question is right up Aditya's alley.
[0:36] Literally heated. Calcium oxide was used in
[0:40] theaters prior to the use of electricity.
[0:44] What was it used for and what term did this lead to?
[0:48] Let me repeat the question, heated calcium oxide was used in
[0:53] theaters prior to the use of electricity.
[0:56] What term did this lead to and what was it used for?
[1:01] I will answer this question at the end of today's episode, but
[1:04] I have a feeling that Aditya will run there ahead of everyone
[1:07] else. So keep your answers ready and I
[1:09] will reveal it at the end of today's episode.
[1:12] So on today's episode, we have a good line up of questions and I
[1:19] think I'll start off with this very interesting fact that I
[1:22] heard the other day, which prompted me to make this
[1:25] question. Aditya, Are you ready?
[1:28] Hit me. William Ernst Henley.
[1:31] Have you heard of William Ernst Henley?
[1:35] Sounds familiar? Yes.
[1:37] William Ernst Henley was a British poet, writer, critic,
[1:40] and editor. Though he wrote several books of
[1:44] poetry, Henley is remembered most for his 1875 poem X.
[1:50] We'll call the title of the poem X for the moment.
[1:53] A fixture in London literary circles, Henley was an
[1:57] inspiration for Rob Louis Stevenson's character Y and his
[2:03] daughter Margaret. Henley inspired another famous
[2:08] literary character. ZI want you to identify the poem
[2:12] that Henley wrote, X the character that he inspired why
[2:17] and Z the character that his daughter inspired.
[2:20] Clues will be given going forward, but let me see if you
[2:23] can get anything from this right now.
[2:27] So the character that Henley himself inspired is why is why a
[2:32] fictional poet? No, the character that he
[2:35] inspired is not a poet. OK, so some trait of Henley
[2:40] inspired a character, but not necessarily the writer or the
[2:43] poet side of him. Yes, yes.
[2:47] Yeah, no, I have no context whatsoever right now because
[2:51] when you mentioned Henley, I can recall hearing his name in the
[2:54] literary context somewhere, but nothing jumps to mind as to what
[2:58] specific work he's famous for, so I will probably need a clue.
[3:03] The first clue that I will give you is that it was his physical
[3:08] appearance that inspired this very famous Robert Louis
[3:14] Stevenson character. RL Stevenson character.
[3:18] Yes. Take something from Treasure
[3:21] Island. Oh yes, Treasure Island.
[3:23] So when I say distinctive appearance in Treasure Island,
[3:27] who would you think of? You can't think of something
[3:30] that's distinctive in terms of appearance in Treasure Island.
[3:34] Oh yeah, yeah, it's become a trope now, frankly.
[3:37] Oh, the pirate. Which one?
[3:41] Oh, that because it's a trope. I know that there's a no.
[3:48] You'll have to help me out. I think I'll give me some clue
[3:50] as to what the name is. OK, so I'll describe the
[3:54] character to you. He was a very crafty pirate with
[4:01] a parrot. Yes.
[4:02] And a wooden leg. Yeah, I remember all these
[4:07] things because they became tropes for a pirate post.
[4:11] This imagining by Adolf Stevenson in Treasure Island.
[4:14] I'm forgetting the name. Captain.
[4:18] Captain. No, it's not Captain Flint.
[4:22] It's not Captain Flint. No, it's not Flint, Oh.
[4:24] OK then no, I then. I'm probably confusing him with
[4:29] somebody else then. OK, I'll give it.
[4:31] It's Long John Silver. Long John Silver, you should
[4:34] have told me it's a fast food restaurant, OK.
[4:38] Oh, yeah, no, that would not have, you know, occurred to me.
[4:42] So you have now guessed that the character that he inspired was
[4:46] Long John Silva. Which poem did he write, do you
[4:51] remember? You have any idea which poem
[4:52] that he could have written? Henley No, that I don't know.
[4:56] OK, so my clue to you is movie starring Matt Damon.
[5:02] Invictus. Never mind, let's move on.
[5:06] Of course it is Invictus. Yes, William Henley was the
[5:10] person who wrote Invictus. It was his appearance that
[5:14] inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to create the character.
[5:17] Long John Silver and his young daughter Margaret Henley
[5:22] inspired a very famous literary character.
[5:27] So much so that the name of this literary character was
[5:29] practically invented for this character.
[5:32] It was not a name that was the present prior to this book, and
[5:36] it was after this book's publication that this name
[5:39] became popular in the public and it's now quite, quite a feminine
[5:42] name. It's a very famous feminine
[5:45] name. Sorry, so Margaret inspired a
[5:48] character? So the name of the character was
[5:51] Margaret. I don't and and no.
[5:53] No, the character's name was not Margaret.
[5:55] But Margaret inspired a character.
[5:58] A classic character. OK, but the name was our
[6:01] Margaret, and the name of the character eventually became an
[6:05] iconic commonplace name. Yes, it was not a name prior to
[6:10] this. Margaret Henley Is Margaret
[6:13] Henley famous for something? Because I I don't know.
[6:17] No, she inspired a particular character.
[6:21] OK, I'll give you a clue. OK, so this is a very famous
[6:25] quizzing trivia, so you should probably be able to make a
[6:28] connection immediately. Have you heard of an amateur
[6:32] cricket team called the AL Aqbaris?
[6:36] The AL Aqbaris No. The Allah Akbaris, you know
[6:40] Allah Akbar, so it's called the Allah Akbaris.
[6:44] OK, OK. It's a play on names.
[6:46] It's an amateur cricket team founded by one particular author
[6:50] and at one point I have time it had author Conan Doyle, PG
[6:54] Wodehouse, Jerome K Jerome, A A Mill, AW Musin, Bernard
[6:58] Partridge. They were all members of the
[7:00] same team as well as the son of Alfred Tennyson.
[7:03] Wow. But who is the one who founded
[7:06] the team? That's the play on words when
[7:09] you say Allah huck berries. Allah huck berries.
[7:15] Allah huck Berry. Huckleberry.
[7:17] No, that doesn't make sense. No, no, no.
[7:21] I have never heard this piece of trivia.
[7:22] What is it? Oh OK, so oh shit, I just
[7:25] squandered a question then because I thought you would have
[7:27] known this. It was an amateur cricket team
[7:30] active from 87 to 1913, and it was founded by an author and the
[7:37] team's name was a portmanteau of the author's name and the
[7:43] mistaken belief that Allahu Akbar actually meant heaven help
[7:48] us when it actually means God is great.
[7:51] They thought that it meant heaven help us.
[7:54] Oh, oh, Barry. Barry, that that Peter Pan.
[7:57] Peter Pan guy. OK, so yes, you have JM Berry
[8:01] and the book is Peter Kapan. So who's the character?
[8:03] Oh. Is this the person who I've
[8:06] heard this piece of trivia? The Wendy.
[8:09] Yes, Wendy darling. Yes, yes.
[8:12] So now we've got all three pieces.
[8:14] I could not believe this connection when I first read it,
[8:16] so let me just take it from the top.
[8:18] Just wallow in the connection of history.
[8:20] So from the age of 12, William Andre Henley had tuberculosis of
[8:25] the bone that resulted in the amputation of his left leg below
[8:29] the knee. That classical appearance was an
[8:32] inspiration for Long John Silver.
[8:35] As you know, he was a prolific poet and he did write Invictus,
[8:39] and not just because it's a fantastic poem, but it was also
[8:42] purportedly one of the main things that inspired Nelson
[8:47] Mandela. And there's a very famous movie
[8:50] about the South African sports team.
[8:52] I think it's a rugby team, right, starring Matt Damon.
[8:55] So that's another connection that's there.
[8:59] It's a famous poem written by William on Shanley.
[9:02] And then finally, his daughter Margaret Henley was a sickly
[9:05] child. And JM Barry was familiar with
[9:09] the family. And young Margaret used to call
[9:11] her friend Barry, her Wendy. Wendy, as in friend so friendly,
[9:16] friend friendly became friendly and friendly Wendy.
[9:20] And so JM Barry used the name Wendy for a feminine character
[9:23] in his book for the first time. Unfortunately, Margaret did not
[9:26] live long enough to read the book.
[9:28] She died in 1894 at the age of 5.
[9:31] William and Shirley wrote Invictus inspired Long John
[9:35] Silver and his daughter was the inspiration for Wendy Darling in
[9:39] Peter Pan. I do not know the connection to
[9:42] William Henley, though I remember the name Wendy came
[9:44] from the Wendy and how it was mispronounced by a young girl I
[9:48] did not realize. It's one of those things when
[9:49] you read about it, it's like 1 trivia jumping to another and
[9:53] they are all kind of interlinked through this man's life.
[9:56] Pretty cool. Pretty cool actually.
[9:58] I love that. OK, you're done.
[10:00] Lovely. So given that we were talking
[10:02] about interconnections, I'm going to ask you about a series
[10:06] of things that are connected via one common theme.
[10:10] OK. The interconnected thing in this
[10:13] case is a building, and this building X used to be
[10:17] historically at various points a glass factory, vinegar works,
[10:23] gin, distillery, glass kiln, barge houses and also an inn at
[10:28] some point called the Vine. So it has played multiple roles
[10:32] through history. There was also evidence that
[10:35] there was a river wall on this particular site.
[10:38] Since 1994, this building X has been used for the purpose Y or
[10:45] to house YY before it moved to X was at two different locations.
[10:53] The first was 54 Broadway and the second was Century House.
[10:59] So wise trajectory goes from 54 Broadway, Century House and then
[11:04] X&X before it housed Y used to be all the things that I
[11:09] mentioned earlier, the glass factory, glass kiln, vinegar
[11:12] works, gin distillery. There was a river wall at that
[11:15] point, barge houses and also an inn.
[11:18] OK, so historically has held many things.
[11:21] What are X and YY has resided in X or Y has been located at X
[11:26] since 1994. Can you guess what X&Y are?
[11:31] Since 1994, Y has been an X&X has been a lot of things
[11:37] including you mentioned a Winehouse, right?
[11:40] Yeah, yeah, yeah, OK. Actually, I did not mention a
[11:44] Winehouse, but it was an inn called The Vine.
[11:48] Yeah, but Inns usually serve wine, right?
[11:50] So then and it's called the wine, so.
[11:52] But not wine like WINE, Wine like VINE.
[11:57] OK, is it some kind of historical artifact?
[12:01] I'm asking for a clue here. OK.
[12:04] I mean, technically because X has had these sites through
[12:08] history and has had some archaeological excavation, so
[12:12] there was some historical interest in this space.
[12:16] God, Century House, why didn't I get this?
[12:18] I've read enough John le Carre and all.
[12:20] This is the MI 6. Yes, it is the MI 6 building.
[12:26] And the building you're talking about is that monstrosity that
[12:29] on the River Thames and out of which Piers Brosnan jumped.
[12:33] What was it, a speedboat out of it?
[12:36] Who was that? I think tomorrow never dies.
[12:38] I don't remember which movie but yes it has featured in James
[12:40] Bond. Actually a multiple James Bond
[12:42] films it has featured. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[12:44] It's, it's been everywhere. Yes, it's called the.
[12:47] Sis Building Secret Intelligence Service building, which is the
[12:51] house for Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI 6.
[12:54] Yes, yes. Whose first chief was Sir
[12:58] Mansfield Cummings, who used to sign his letters with the letter
[13:02] C, which was in green ink. And then Ian Fleming wanted to
[13:06] have that, but I didn't want to use C So then he created the
[13:09] letter M for Sir Miles Mazuri, who was supposed to be the chief
[13:13] of the Secret Intelligence Service.
[13:15] Yeah, I know. I, I, I, I know way too much
[13:17] about this to not have gotten it when you said Century House.
[13:21] No, no, I, I, I allow you that flex because you, you do deserve
[13:24] it. You know enough about it to have
[13:26] a well deserved flex. On that point though, I will
[13:29] tell you the clue was why I wanted to ask this question.
[13:32] So all of these things are interesting in and of themselves
[13:34] that yes, the building, SIS building that houses MI 6 or SIS
[13:39] had this history of having all of these other places before.
[13:42] And MI 6 itself has moved from this place called 54 Broadway in
[13:47] London to Century House in London.
[13:48] And finally, at this point in 1994, the headquarters.
[13:52] It had moved to Century House in 1964.
[13:55] Yeah. It was supposed to be a
[13:57] classified information, but the Daily Telegraph reported it as,
[14:02] quote, London's worst kept secret, known only to every taxi
[14:06] driver, tourist guide and KGB agent.
[14:11] Yeah, that particular piece of clue was why I love this trivia
[14:14] that the previous headquarters of MI 6 before the current ones
[14:19] was a classified information and yet Daily Telegraph reported it
[14:23] as London's worst kept secret known to every KGB agent also.
[14:27] So that that is my question. And yes, it was meant to be
[14:31] something right up your alley as you keep giving me things up my
[14:35] alley. So Vineet, what question do you
[14:37] have in store for me now? That was a nice one.
[14:41] So by the way, I have recommended this before, but I
[14:43] think I should recommend it again.
[14:45] You should really listen to the Spy Who.
[14:47] It's a podcast that's available on Spotify and I think it's by
[14:50] wondering the spy who describes different spies and their
[14:53] exploits during various periods in history.
[14:55] So that's a recommendation I may be probably giving again.
[14:59] But anyway, moving on, I'm now going to ask a question that was
[15:02] sent in by a member of our audience.
[15:05] This particular question is a listicle which I love the fact
[15:12] that Arjun Srikumar has sent this to us.
[15:15] And the question is as follows. Aditya, with respect to the
[15:19] Filmfare Awards for Bollywood, what is unique about the awards?
[15:23] Given to Meena Kumari in 1963 for best actress, Mohammad Rafi
[15:28] in 1969 for best male playback singer, Asha Bhosle in 1973 for
[15:33] best female playback singer, Kishore Kumar in 1985 for best
[15:38] male playback singer, Alka Yagnik 1994 best female playback
[15:43] singer and Javed Akhtar in 2005 for best lyricist.
[15:49] What is common or what is unique about these awards?
[15:53] Sorry, give me the Javed Akhtar 1.
[15:55] When was that? So Javed Akhtar was 2005.
[15:58] I'm guessing you already know what awards what I want so I'll
[16:00] just give you the names in the years Meena Kumari 1963,
[16:03] Muhammad Rafi 1969, Asha Bhosle in 1973, Kishore Kumar 1985,
[16:10] Alka Yagnik 1994 and Javed Akhtar in 2005.
[16:16] Frankly, this was a big TIL for me when I read Arjun's question
[16:20] and I was like, wow, I really have to put this in an episode.
[16:23] So this is the question that he asked and frankly very
[16:27] interesting answer. Oh, very interesting answer.
[16:30] I was going to go for something simple.
[16:33] I was going to go for something like they refused the award but
[16:37] I don't remember. Oh no, I don't think anybody
[16:39] refuses a film fare like they may not show up to pick it up
[16:42] like Aamir Khan. Yeah, refused or or didn't?
[16:46] Didn't receive it or didn't come to receive it.
[16:49] OK, so that's not the answer in this case.
[16:51] You're right, Aamir Khan would have fit the bill.
[16:54] They all seem to be OK. Romina Kumari is the actress but
[16:56] the others are all singers or something to do with music.
[17:03] Were they also nominated in another category in the same
[17:08] year? Like I can imagine Kishore Kumar
[17:10] for acting, Javed Akhtar for lyrics and dialogues or
[17:13] something like that. Impossible, but then Asha most
[17:16] like Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi and Alkhayagnik.
[17:20] Alka Yagnik is only a singer. Supposedly only a singer.
[17:24] Multiple nominee but I know multiple nominations.
[17:27] Like even like Shahrukh has gotten on multiple years for
[17:29] acting and stuff. Warmer.
[17:33] Warmer, OK. Is there like a like 3
[17:37] nominations for? Is there a number like they have
[17:39] gotten certain number of nominations?
[17:42] Take it to the extreme. You are almost there.
[17:43] Just take it to the extreme. Extreme are all the nominations,
[17:48] Yes. So these are all artists who had
[17:53] all the nominations in their respective categories.
[17:56] For example, in 1963, all the nominations were from Meena
[18:01] Kumari in different films. What?
[18:05] Oh wow. OK.
[18:07] Yeah, so in those days they had only three nominations.
[18:09] So then Meena Kumari was nominated three times for three
[18:12] different films. Same thing for Javed Akhtar,
[18:15] best lyricist. I mean, like it was literally
[18:17] just a formality. Like it's a one time that people
[18:20] can be sure they know who's going to win.
[18:25] Interesting, interesting. I wonder what it feels like to
[18:28] be dominated and everything, or rather be the only nominee.
[18:32] And yet people are making a choice as to one of your babies,
[18:36] right? Because they have to pick which
[18:37] one of your works do they like the best.
[18:39] Yeah, so that's what I'm imagining.
[18:42] Like Javed Akhtar must be like. I wanted for this.
[18:44] I should have wanted for the other movie.
[18:46] I wrote better for that. That is like a what a strange
[18:51] win to have. This was not deserved at all.
[18:54] I deserved it for the other film.
[18:56] Oh, I do wonder what that looked like if which one of these would
[18:59] have been televised? Definitely the Javed Akhtar one
[19:01] would have been televised. Do they like cut to his face
[19:04] from like different angles like Javed Akhtar for this?
[19:07] Javed Akhtar, the first film #2 Javed Akhtar film #3 I love
[19:12] that. Amazing.
[19:13] OK, that is a very good piece of trivia.
[19:15] Very huge TIL for me as well. And that was all thanks to Arjun
[19:20] Srikumar. So thank you, Arjun.
[19:23] Amazing. Thank you, Arjun.
[19:24] I love questions that are sent to us and I believe there have
[19:28] been quite a few recent questions.
[19:29] I've seen a few which have been sent to you, Vineet.
[19:31] So I'm assuming I have a few audience questions coming my
[19:34] way. I love that.
[19:35] Yes, yes, yes. I'm trying to sprinkle them out
[19:38] so that everybody gets, you know, throughout multiple
[19:41] episodes. And so, you know, you, if you've
[19:42] sent in a question, keep listening because it will show
[19:45] up and I won't tell you which episode it's going to show up
[19:47] in. So you'll be forced to listen.
[19:49] I'm going to hold you hostage. That is such a strange way to
[19:53] treat your listeners, harassing them when they're doing us a
[19:59] favor and sending us questions. Let me speak on his behalf.
[20:02] We are very grateful and appreciative.
[20:04] We do not want to hold you hostage.
[20:07] I do want to hold you hostage a little bit.
[20:09] Otherwise, why producers podcast in the first place?
[20:12] When we produce a podcast and somebody is listening to them,
[20:15] listening to us, we are literally holding their ears
[20:17] hostage for like, whatever, 40 minutes, 50 minutes, whatever we
[20:21] are, we are the villains of the story.
[20:23] This is the smallest amount of power I have ever seen get to
[20:27] Summers head. This is somewhat of power that
[20:30] you could be corrupted by, and you have been my Lord.
[20:34] World domination through trivia. I hope they never hand you the
[20:38] keys to the country. Oh, fat chance of that
[20:42] happening. OK, your turn.
[20:46] Vineet, my question is very simple.
[20:48] One of the kind of questions that we perhaps don't do very
[20:50] often. OK, But seeing that this is, are
[20:54] you quizzing me where there's a little bit of a catch, always a
[20:56] little bit of an unexpected twist.
[20:58] So you perhaps want to approach this question with that in mind.
[21:01] Tell me Vineet, which is the world's longest art gallery?
[21:06] The world's longest art gallery. I know the answer to this and
[21:12] you cannot tell me I'm wrong, so I'm going to tell you that
[21:15] upfront. You can absolutely not be able
[21:17] to tell me I'm wrong. The world's longest art gallery
[21:21] is the desert, which hosts the NASCAR art lines.
[21:25] You know, the NASCAR lines, which can only be seen from the
[21:28] air. OK.
[21:30] So they're like huge. They're like Acres and Acres and
[21:32] Acres that is the world's largest art gallery.
[21:35] Thank you. You've been a great audience
[21:37] tonight. Don't forget to tip your
[21:39] waitress. I'll move on to the next
[21:44] question that I. Yes, yeah.
[21:45] No, I for the purpose of keeping you on as a Co host and not
[21:50] losing you, I'll say yes. Good job, well done applause.
[21:54] We'll play now. But just to humor me, what would
[21:57] be another answer that would maybe fit the bill more
[22:00] accurately? What is the world's longest art
[22:03] gallery? Oh, by longest are you saying
[22:05] the art gallery with the longest name or, you know, physically
[22:10] longest? Not beyond me to actually throw
[22:13] something like that your way, but no, in this case I genuinely
[22:16] mean longest as in physically longest.
[22:19] Or is it like an art gallery that's so boring that when
[22:21] you're inside it feels like a long period of time?
[22:24] I cannot blame you for asking me these questions because this is
[22:27] exactly the kind of stuff I would give you.
[22:29] So this is a physically long art gallery.
[22:32] For once, I genuinely mean my question, I'm not trying to
[22:36] phrase it in a roundabout way. OK, so I'm guessing this is not
[22:40] an art gallery at all. I'm guessing maybe is this like
[22:42] some kind of the viewing place in Buckingham Palace or the
[22:45] White House or something like that?
[22:47] Instead of answering that question directly because I feel
[22:49] like that might be too much of A giveaway, let me give you
[22:51] another hint. It weaves around for 70 miles in
[22:56] this particular city. 7070 miles. 70 miles.
[23:03] For reference, that is 112 kilometers.
[23:06] Yeah, that's in one city. Exactly.
[23:10] Oh, is this like the the catacombs under Rome?
[23:14] Oh lovely. Guess I don't think the
[23:16] catacombs would be that huge. I don't know, could be.
[23:20] I mean like they'll be intersecting, right?
[23:21] So then the total length would be I.
[23:24] Imagine. I imagine, but I don't know how
[23:26] much art exists in the category that does exist.
[23:29] Some of it I guess. They have like piles of, you
[23:31] know, what we call skulls and things like that, right?
[23:34] True, true. Everything is art.
[23:36] Fair enough if you if you are stoned enough I guess.
[23:40] Everything is art. No, this is actual art.
[23:45] And I'll give you another further clue.
[23:47] European art is what I'm talking about.
[23:49] So this is in Europe somewhere? 112 kilometers of European art.
[23:55] Is this some kind of fancy way of saying that Florence has so
[23:58] many statues and things like that that you have to call it an
[24:01] art gallery? No, this is an art gallery that
[24:05] there are tours designed for. Though it does serve another
[24:09] purpose as well. The primary purpose is something
[24:11] else. It also happens to be an art
[24:13] gallery. Oh wait, is it the Vatican?
[24:16] I don't know if the Vatican will be 112K I guess.
[24:20] I mean, like, see, again, they've been, I won't say
[24:22] looting because that will get me in trouble, but they have a lot
[24:26] of art from a lot of parts of the world, lots of, you know,
[24:29] parts of the world, so. Where the Vatican City, I think
[24:33] the perimeter is like 3.2 kilometers so.
[24:37] I was thinking maybe like a circular spiral and they have
[24:39] like multiple floors and whatnot.
[24:41] You know, you never know what's under the Vatican.
[24:43] I've read the Da Vinci Code. I know what's up.
[24:46] Yeah, I guess you and Dan Brown are the only two people who give
[24:50] to access to the knowledge. But no, we're not in Italy,
[24:53] we're not in Vatican, not Rome. You are trying I guess.
[24:57] Oh, I've been vaguely fixated on Italy for so long.
[25:01] Don't tell me the Louvre. It's not the Louvre, is it?
[25:05] Not, not France either. Wait, is this the Louvre that
[25:08] they're building in Dubai? Like I mentioned, it's European
[25:11] art. It is in Europe.
[25:13] Wait, I know the British Museum, the British National Museum has
[25:17] like multiple floors and underground floors and things
[25:20] like that. Not the UK either.
[25:23] OK, I'm going to need something else here clear how to help me
[25:26] out. The reason that this is the
[25:29] world's longest art gallery, or this is an art gallery to begin
[25:32] with, stems from a socialist idea that art should be
[25:36] accessible for the masses. Everybody should be able to
[25:40] enjoy and access the arts. OK, this is like a graffiti
[25:45] thing. OK, graffiti, obviously also an
[25:47] art form, but I'm talking about decades and decades of European
[25:51] art history is on display in this art gallery and it is
[25:55] accessible to the general public of this city.
[26:00] No dude, I'm just I'm I'm I'm all out of guesses.
[26:04] I've not even smart Alec answers anymore.
[26:08] OK, let me give you one last clue.
[26:11] This place or the city? If even if you give me the name
[26:14] of the city that that should get us somewhere there.
[26:17] The city is made-up of 14 islands, famously.
[26:21] Venice. No, I said not.
[26:24] Not Italy. Not Italy.
[26:26] Oh yeah, you keep saying it all, really.
[26:28] I just keep coming back to Italy. 14 islands is it?
[26:33] That's the Seven Bridges city, which is a Stuttgart, no?
[26:37] No, it's a Nordic. It's a Nordic country.
[26:40] Dude, I'm blank. You just have to tell me.
[26:42] Stockholm. Stockholm is the city.
[26:45] Yes. Well done.
[26:46] Well done. No, yeah, that was literally the
[26:48] last European city left for me to guess.
[26:52] Hey, you did not go to Frankfurt, you did not go to
[26:55] Berlin. So, so good job there.
[26:57] I went to Stuttgart for God's sakes, no offense.
[27:01] Stuttgart, I'm told, is a very beautiful city.
[27:03] So yeah. OK, so Stockholm, you're right.
[27:06] Now I'll go back to the clue, which I said that art was meant
[27:09] to be accessible to everybody. It was a very strongly socialist
[27:12] idea or agenda that art shouldn't be kept away in
[27:15] galleries and museums where only the elite and the rich can go.
[27:18] A place where almost the regular folks of a city can easily walk
[27:22] and access and witness the art on a daily basis.
[27:27] I don't know what, I have no clue what.
[27:31] What kind of famous buildings are there in Stockholm?
[27:34] Remember I said 112 kilometers? No one building has 112
[27:37] kilometers. Yeah.
[27:38] So then it will be like a walkway or something, right?
[27:41] Or what is 112 kilo? Nobody walks through a walkway
[27:46] of 112 kilometers. Well, it's a boat ride there.
[27:49] No, not a boat ride. What other means of transport
[27:52] would you use to? Trains.
[27:54] Hey, there we go. Yes, it is the Subway Metro that
[27:58] is the world's longest art gallery.
[28:02] Exactly. Oh oh, that's smart.
[28:06] I did not even think of a subway metro.
[28:09] Nice. So actually this question has
[28:12] been many years in the making and I was travelling in Russia
[28:17] more than a decade ago for my grad trip.
[28:20] I just graduated a little bit of flex there.
[28:23] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A fair warning to people.
[28:26] He's going to mention Mount Tibetabo very soon.
[28:30] Keep your knickers on. That's all I'm saying.
[28:33] Oh, that I'll say for another After hours podcast.
[28:36] But no, in this case I will mention that I was travelling to
[28:39] Russia and I remember posting pictures on Instagram and
[28:42] talking about just how beautiful the railway stations were.
[28:45] And a friend of mine commented on it saying the reason is
[28:48] because the Communist Party back in the day was very strongly of
[28:52] the opinion that art should not be kept away in galleries and
[28:54] museums. So they used to put it up in
[28:56] railway stations. So a lot of Russia, the railway
[28:58] stations are gorgeous and they have such beautiful artwork, you
[29:02] would not believe it. And these are tiny stations and
[29:04] tiny cities, not even like I'm not even talking Saint
[29:06] Petersburg or Moscow or anything.
[29:08] I'm talking like really, really tiny towns, somewhere tucked
[29:11] away and they'll have these murals and masterpieces of
[29:14] paintings. So Stockholm similarly had the
[29:17] idea of making art as accessible as possible.
[29:20] And you can access the free walking tours.
[29:23] The only price you have to pay is a metro ticket.
[29:25] So as long as you have a ticket for a train, you are able to
[29:28] access this art gallery. And as most people do, they use
[29:32] the metro. They use the trains for their
[29:34] regular commute and are able to enjoy art along the way.
[29:37] More than 5 decades of European art history is visible all
[29:41] across Stockholm Metro and Stockholm subways.
[29:45] And that is the world's longest art gallery.
[29:49] That is very nice. That's a very nice question, but
[29:53] I still contend that the NASCAR lines must be the largest.
[29:58] Of course, of course, come. On man you will literally have
[30:00] to go up in the air to see it. I am, I am sorry.
[30:03] I, I apologize. I apologize.
[30:06] Yeah, just imagine how bad the aliens who made it must be
[30:10] failing. Yeah, All right.
[30:12] That was a joke. I don't believe that aliens made
[30:14] the NASCAR lines. Please.
[30:15] Oh, you can't take it back. You can't take it back, Vineet.
[30:18] Nope. Nope.
[30:19] Sorry. Not taking it back anymore.
[30:21] You are on record now, OK. Moving on from conspiracy
[30:27] theories to something that's not actually conspiracy theory at
[30:31] all. So it's a very straightforward
[30:32] question, like you just asked me.
[30:34] So it's a very straightforward question, Aditya.
[30:36] So this is regarding TV shows, so hopefully this should be also
[30:41] right up your alley. So the question is this the
[30:45] first letters of the names of the main characters in which
[30:49] blockbuster TV show originally spelled out magic?
[30:54] Originally spelled out magic and then eventually has changed.
[30:57] Yeah, I mean like TV shows, like characters come and go.
[31:01] Oh, the original cast their names spelled out magic, and
[31:03] then eventually. Yeah, the first letters of their
[31:06] names spelled out magic. Sabrina the Teenage Witch, but
[31:10] there's no S in it, so never mind.
[31:12] The first letters of the names of the main characters of which
[31:17] blockbuster TV show originally spelled out magic.
[31:21] MAGIC. OK, blockbuster TV show with
[31:28] five main characters. I can think of Big Bang Theory.
[31:32] I can think of How I Met Your Mother in recent memory.
[31:36] These are the ones that come to mind.
[31:39] I don't think it's unfair to say that this show is probably
[31:44] bigger than the two that you've mentioned.
[31:48] Bigger than How I Met Your mother, bigger than Big Bang
[31:50] Theory. Yeah.
[31:53] Is it more recent than these shows as well?
[31:56] Both yes and no. So it's more recent than one and
[32:00] less recent than the other. No, I just said it's both yes
[32:04] and no. That should maybe tell you
[32:05] something. No, it doesn't.
[32:07] Really. Stop it.
[32:08] Stop it. Really don't.
[32:10] You can't carry forward these habits into 2025.
[32:13] I urge you to be better in this year.
[32:18] Fine. Both yes and no.
[32:20] So it started before that and ended after that.
[32:23] Maybe magic. Meredith Grey Magic.
[32:29] Grey's Anatomy, Yes, very good. It is Grey's Anatomy.
[32:34] So the original cast. Do you know the characters
[32:36] names? I would not faulty of you did
[32:38] not. I have seen the first season of
[32:40] Grey's Anatomy and I gave up quite soon thereafter, but
[32:43] that's the only way I got to the cue.
[32:45] Because you said both yes and no, which means probably started
[32:48] before and ended after or is it ongoing?
[32:50] It's still ongoing. It's still going.
[32:52] It's still going, 21 seasons, still going.
[32:54] My Lord, Wow. 400 plus episode. I'm so glad I gave up because I
[32:58] don't think I would have been able to keep up with it.
[33:00] Yeah, it's available on Disney Hot Side if anybody's
[33:02] interested. The five major characters of the
[33:06] first few seasons of Grey's Anatomy included Meredith Grey,
[33:10] Alex Karev, George O'Malley, Izzy Stevens, and Christina
[33:13] Yang. The first letters of their names
[33:15] spelled out magic MAGIC. So much so that fans also called
[33:20] the first four or five seasons, I don't remember which exactly
[33:23] because frankly I haven't watched the show that much, but
[33:26] the first few seasons where all 5 characters were present, they
[33:29] called it the magic era and that show launched the careers of a
[33:36] lot of people, including stars like Christian Yang.
[33:39] It made Shonda Rhimes Juggernaut and we now have Bridgeton thanks
[33:44] to the fact that she became very famous and powerful after the
[33:49] success of Grey's Anatomy. And it's also led to multiple
[33:52] spin off stories. Spin off shows.
[33:54] Do you know any of the spin off shows?
[33:55] Aditya. None, but I do know there are a
[33:58] few. Yeah, so there is another one
[34:01] called Private Practice, which ran for six seasons.
[34:05] Then there is another show called Station 19.
[34:09] And then there are two spin offs rather adaptations, one in
[34:14] Mexico and one in Colombia, both of them called a Corazon
[34:19] Abierto. Don't ask me what it means, I
[34:23] just know that the name is a Corazon, the Abierto.
[34:27] The open heart. Oh.
[34:30] Nice. I know Corazon is hot, but
[34:32] Abierto is open. OK nice, very nice.
[34:35] So we have the well travelled Aditya to thank for the that
[34:38] particular transition. But yes, so the first letters of
[34:40] the names of the main characters of Grey's Anatomy at least
[34:43] initially spelled out Magic and Aditya, your question.
[34:49] All right, great. I have asked the Grey's Anatomy
[34:51] question in the past because I know Grey's Anatomy had to do
[34:54] with the medical textbook and that question I remember you
[34:58] cracking very quickly, so I love this little throwback to a
[35:02] previous episode. Thank you for reminding me of
[35:05] this piece of trivia as well. But moving on, my question has
[35:09] to do with another young person that that's the best segue I can
[35:13] do. I guess when Grazer had to be
[35:15] started, they were all young. So let's use that as a segue.
[35:19] This young gentleman by the name of Mike, who was 17, owned a
[35:24] domain name. He was from the Canadian Belmont
[35:28] High School and the student was sued by a huge company, by a
[35:34] very large corporation because they wanted that particular
[35:39] domain name. They thought they deserved that
[35:41] domain name. They thought that they should be
[35:44] the rightful owners of that domain name.
[35:47] Do you know which company was Mike from?
[35:50] Belmont High School, A 17 year old student from Canada sued by.
[35:57] Sued by a company I know that Google had lost their domain
[36:02] name. Like they had forgotten to renew
[36:04] their domain name one year and somebody kind of snapped that up
[36:08] and they had to give him a bunch of money.
[36:10] Is this that same one? No, I think that is a pretty
[36:13] common piece of prevail, Yes, And I believe that they
[36:15] eventually donated that money or something along those lines.
[36:18] But no, this is not the same one.
[36:20] This this happened in 2003. By the way, Mike registered his
[36:23] domain in 2003. August 5th, 2003.
[36:27] And he was sued at the same year.
[36:30] He received a legal notice January of 2004 and eventually
[36:36] was sued thereafter. OK, 2003 right?
[36:43] Nope. I need some kind of clue.
[36:45] The clue would be another segue from the previous question.
[36:49] Because the previous question had to do with names and this
[36:51] question or the answer lies in the name itself, you have to
[36:56] focus on the mic part of it. Mic Micro, Microsoft.
[37:01] Hey, there we go. Microsoft it is.
[37:04] Do you know why? Microsoft sued him.
[37:06] Wait, did they did Microsoft forget to renew their domain and
[37:10] something? No.
[37:11] But you said he registered the domain right Then.
[37:13] Yeah. Did they forget it and he
[37:14] snapped it up and he registered with his own name?
[37:17] No, no, he had a different website altogether that was
[37:20] using his own name. Can you guess what Mike's last
[37:24] name is? This is something really silly.
[37:28] This is This is last name Rosoft.
[37:31] His name is RO, so Mike Mike Rowe.
[37:36] Mike Rowe. This Canadian teenager
[37:40] registered a website calledmikerowsoft.com.
[37:47] Oh God. And wait, why?
[37:50] And Microsoft actually sued him for it.
[37:52] So Microsoft argued that that trademark had been infringed
[37:56] because the phonetic resemblance between Microsoft and Microsoft
[38:00] and when he initially set it up. So when he initially set it up,
[38:04] Microsoft's Canadian legal representatives sent him a
[38:08] letter and Roe, in response said OK, fine, compensate me for
[38:13] giving up the domain, just pay me some money.
[38:15] Just do that. Microsoft offered to pay Roe out
[38:19] of pocket expenses of $10, which was the original cost of
[38:22] registering the domain name. Roe got really mad and instead
[38:27] asked for $10,000, claiming that he did it because he was pissed
[38:31] off at Microsoft for their initial offer.
[38:33] Microsoft declined the offer and sent a seasoned desist letter
[38:37] spanning 25 pages. Let's.
[38:41] Pay the man. This is a 17 year old 17 year
[38:45] old being sued by Microsoft. I'm reminded of the guy who
[38:49] recently had, I think, gotten the Geostar domain because of
[38:55] the upcoming merger between Disney and Geo Cinema.
[38:59] So it's apparently so he's predicted that it might be
[39:01] called Geostar or Geohotstar. And I don't remember which
[39:06] domain it was exactly. And then he put up a landing
[39:09] page where he's like, I have this if you pay for my MBA in
[39:13] the US, like he wanted to do an MBA in the US, then he'll
[39:17] transfer the domain to them. But then Reliance just decided
[39:20] to sue him. Oh yeah, that probably did not
[39:24] work out too well for him. Yeah, it didn't work out.
[39:26] No. OK, so Microsoft just just so
[39:31] silly. Because of public pressure,
[39:33] Microsoft relented and they did an out of court settlement with
[39:38] Microsoft finally taking the control of the domain.
[39:41] In return, Microsoft agreed to pay all of the expenses that Roe
[39:44] had incurred, including setting up a new site and redirecting
[39:47] traffic to microwforums.com. So microsoft.com and that
[39:55] website is no longer functioning.
[39:57] Microsoft also provided Row with subscription to the Microsoft
[40:00] Developer Network and all expenses paid.
[40:02] Trip for him and his family to the Microsoft Research Tech Fest
[40:05] that is in Washington and training for Microsoft
[40:08] certification and an Xbox with the selection of games.
[40:11] So they really had to compensate him for way more than the $10
[40:15] that they had initially offered to him.
[40:18] Oh God, I mean like even just the hours of Billings that their
[40:22] lawyers would have to wait. They must have paid in hundreds
[40:24] of thousands. Microsoft doesn't have cheap
[40:26] lawyers. Yeah, I'm sure.
[40:28] And you know what? In this case, I'm on Mike Rose
[40:31] side. Microsoft can really go suck on
[40:36] the tailpipe of a car. Always.
[40:38] Yes. Oh God.
[40:40] Yeah. OK, so I think we have time for
[40:43] one more round of questions. And this is one that was sent to
[40:46] us by Arush Ghate, and it is right up Aditya's alley.
[40:52] I'm I'm fairly sure you'll get this quickly, but still.
[40:55] Michael Foote was a British politician who was the leader of
[40:59] the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to
[41:03] 1983. In 1978 a reader, David Allen,
[41:09] responded to an article for the Guardian newspaper suggesting
[41:13] that if in future, if Mr. Foote were to be appointed as
[41:18] Secretary of Defence, they should run the headline.
[41:22] Blank, blank, blank, blank forwards.
[41:25] A hilarious bit of word play about this potential scenario.
[41:28] So what was the headline that he suggested?
[41:31] It was a hilarious headline and it was right up your alley.
[41:34] What do you think it was? Oh, I love hilarious headlines.
[41:38] So foot. And what is the position again?
[41:41] Secretary of Defense. Oh, OK.
[41:44] Foot in the mouth doesn't work. Secretary of Defense, Foot war
[41:49] foot soldier. No.
[41:52] Give you some sort of a clue maybe?
[41:55] OK, it's just think of other parts of the body.
[42:00] That's my clue. Head and knees, shoulders, I
[42:07] don't know. Wait, so 4 blacks?
[42:10] Sorry, when was he going to be selected as a no?
[42:13] No, this is a hypothetical scenario.
[42:16] So reader David Allen had suggested that if in future Mr.
[42:20] Foote were to be appointed as Secretary of Defense.
[42:23] They should run the headline Blank, blank, blank, blank.
[42:28] Yeah, I got that. But I'm just trying to figure
[42:29] which era was this. Just maybe it helps me.
[42:33] Well, 1978, nineteen or 80s. Oh, OK, that doesn't help me.
[42:38] Never mind. Oh, head and foot, head, foot,
[42:43] something like that. Because he's the head of
[42:44] defense. Foot.
[42:46] So then yeah, yeah, OK. Head.
[42:50] OK, what? What?
[42:51] So what's the main thing that you use in like a country's
[42:54] defence? Arms.
[42:56] Oh, head of arms. Foot.
[42:59] Yeah. I'll tell you what it is.
[43:02] It's it's foot, heads, arms, body.
[43:08] Oh, that is brilliant. I love it.
[43:10] Foot, heads, arms, body. I am.
[43:14] Yes, I'm in love with this headlight that is going down
[43:16] into the Hall of Fame. Yes, apparently it was inducted
[43:20] into the Headline Hall of Fame and Arush has given us another
[43:24] example. So another hilarious headline
[43:27] that he wanted to add as a bonus trivia was that when AB de
[43:30] Villiers welcomed his child with his wife Danielle, Social Watch
[43:36] ran the headline AB Delirious as Mrs. AB delivers baby de
[43:42] Villiers. Cute.
[43:46] I love that. That is also lovely, I like that
[43:48] one. AB delirious as missus AB
[43:51] delivers baby Devilias. Now you should try saying that
[43:55] fast five times. All right, OK, cool.
[44:01] I enjoyed that. I enjoyed that.
[44:03] All right. OK, I think yours is now the
[44:06] last question for this episode. Come on, hit me with it.
[44:10] Well, Speaking of interesting names, tell me what name came
[44:16] from this particular film? The film is Aaj, which is a 1987
[44:21] Indian Hindi language film directed by Mahesh Bhatt.
[44:25] It stars Raj Babbar, Smita, Patil, Kumar Gaurav, Mark Zuber
[44:30] and Anamika Pal. OK.
[44:34] Kumar Gaurav played a youngster whose sister has been missing
[44:37] for a long time, and he often wanders around the streets
[44:41] looking for a There's a brief description of his character.
[44:44] Yeah, I've not watched the movie so.
[44:46] Yeah, that's OK. The name of his character
[44:49] inspired an actual real life name that is now very, very
[44:55] popular in Indian pop culture, in the Indian world of
[44:59] entertainment. OK, can you take a guess as to
[45:01] what this name was? I do not know because I've never
[45:05] seen the movie. Alright, so let me give you a
[45:08] hint. The name that it inspired.
[45:11] The person who has that name actually made his first screen
[45:15] appearance in this film in a bit role.
[45:19] The person who has this name now you say?
[45:25] So let me explain that one more time.
[45:26] Kumar Gaurav's character's name, the youngster whose sister has
[45:30] been missing for a long time and he's looking for a that
[45:32] particular character that Kumar Gaurav played, that character's
[45:35] name was, let's say, adopted or was taken on by this person who
[45:40] actually made his first appearance in this film in a
[45:42] very tiny. Role.
[45:44] Oh, OK. OK, so somebody who's using a
[45:48] particular name X as is nom de plume got it from this movie.
[45:53] Exactly. Oh, OK, OK, that makes more
[45:55] sense. OK, so people who nom de plume
[46:00] and this is an actor, I'm guessing right?
[46:02] Yes. Not nom de plume here, it will
[46:04] be stage name. Stage name?
[46:06] Yes. Stage name, Yeah.
[46:09] Actors who have different name Isn't that quite common?
[46:15] Lot of them changed their names right?
[46:17] I've even heard that Salman Khan's name is not actively
[46:20] Salman Khan, or at least it's not the full name.
[46:25] Shah Rukh is Shah Rukh. But you mentioned what years was
[46:28] this 19? 87 film.
[46:30] Shah Rukh was that's too late for Shah Rukh.
[46:33] Salman yes, Salman was too early for Shah Rukh.
[46:37] Man, Sharman was already acting by this point.
[46:39] Who else is there 19? Saif and Akshay were in the mid
[46:44] 90s or at least early 90s. Mohra was 93 I think right?
[46:49] And Mehkiladi Thuvanadi was also 19394.
[46:53] I'll take your word for it. OK, before, before you go on
[46:57] with your guesses, I'm just going to mention one clue over
[46:59] here. The name of the person who
[47:03] adopted it also kind of links back to Kumar Gaurav's actual
[47:08] name. Kumar Gaurav's name.
[47:10] What is this like a Russian nesting dog Kumar?
[47:13] I don't I don't know. Kumar Gaurav's actual name was
[47:15] not Kumar Gaurav, no. No, no, Kumar Gaurav's actual
[47:18] name was like Kumar Gaurav. The name Kumar Gaurav, not the
[47:21] character's name. Not just the character's name,
[47:23] the name Kumar Gaurav also somehow links to this person.
[47:28] Why Kumar Gaurav, this is going to This is an actor.
[47:33] I know, right? This is not like some kind of
[47:35] deep cut. No, no, not a deep cut at all.
[47:38] This is an actor every single Hindi speaking Indian person
[47:43] absolutely knows. OK, links back to Kumar Gaurav.
[47:48] The only person I can think of is Akshay Kumar.
[47:50] But I don't think Akshay started acting in the in 1987.
[47:54] He was in the early 90s, right? I have to give it to you though,
[47:58] I would have given you this clue also that the bit role that this
[48:01] actor appeared in was a karate instructor and that would have
[48:04] also LED you to Akshay Kumar. Akshay was acting in 1987.
[48:09] It's his first ever on screen appearance in a tiny role as a
[48:13] karate instructor. Oh my God, I really thought he
[48:18] started acting in the 90s. I had no idea he went back that
[48:21] far. Yeah, and his name obviously in
[48:23] the film, his birth name, Rajeev Hariyom Bhatia, was what he used
[48:28] in the film. Yeah, Rajeev Bhatia.
[48:29] Yeah. So Kumar Gaurav's character's
[48:31] name was Akshay and Akshay Kumar has mentioned how he later chose
[48:35] his stage name Akshay Kumar after actor Kumar Gaurav's on
[48:40] screen name in the film. There's a little interesting
[48:42] piece of trivia that he acted in this film.
[48:44] It was his debut technically in a tiny, tiny role and the lead
[48:48] character's name was Akshay and that was played by Kumar Gaurav.
[48:51] So Akshay played by Kumar Gaurav gave Akshay Kumar and that's how
[48:57] Akshay Kumar chose his name. Wow, yeah, Hollywood nesting
[49:00] doll. That's a very great question.
[49:02] Is it a movie worth watching just to I mean like I'm not
[49:05] asking the recommendation or anything, but is it a movie
[49:08] worth watching? The reviews did not seem to be
[49:11] very impressive so I don't know if I would recommend it.
[49:14] But hey, just if you're an Akshay Kumar fan.
[49:16] It's a Mahesh Bhatt movie, right?
[49:18] The IMDb rating is 4.6, so you know what you decide.
[49:22] Oh, OK. Interestingly enough, if you now
[49:25] Google AAJ 1987 film, Google shows you the cast and the first
[49:30] person in the cast is Akshay Kumar, who in the actual film is
[49:33] him. Almost a blanket miss role.
[49:36] Apparently so. OK, OK, OK.
[49:41] Poor Kumar Gaurav. This is his legacy.
[49:44] Into obscurity, Yeah. OK.
[49:47] So I think that's all the time we have for today's episode.
[49:50] Before we wind up there is the matter of the audience question,
[49:52] which I asked at the beginning of today's episode.
[49:54] And that was heated calcium oxide was used in theaters prior
[49:58] to the use of electricity. What was its use and what term
[50:01] did this lead to? Aditya tell me the answer.
[50:04] Limelight. Yes, very good, very, very good.
[50:09] Obviously being a theater kid that they know this, but calcium
[50:12] oxide is also called quick lime. And that's the, you know, the
[50:16] lime in limelight comes from this calcium oxide, which is a
[50:19] chemical compound that emits a bright white light when heated.
[50:23] Before electricity and bulbs, they used to have this, they
[50:27] used to heat up calcium oxide and the light used to be focused
[50:30] using a lens onto the stage. And another bonus piece of
[50:34] trivia, Limelight was first used in a theatre in London's Covent
[50:38] Garden in 1837. That's the answer to the
[50:41] audience question. And let's wind up quickly.
[50:44] Aditya, what's your pop culture recommendation for this week?
[50:46] I was visiting some classics. I realized 2024 was not a very
[50:51] book heavy year for me. So I was.
[50:54] I wanted to change that in 2025 and I started by reading a
[50:57] classic I read. I'd never read it before.
[51:00] The Time Machine by HG Wells. That is my first recommendation,
[51:05] The Time Machine. And since I'm I have mentioned
[51:08] Edgy Wells, I'm going to mention The Invisible Man as well.
[51:11] Two books of his that I've read and I've enjoyed.
[51:14] So check out Edgy Wells, one of The Pioneers of science fiction.
[51:18] Bunch of interesting books including these two.
[51:21] Yes, I would actually also just recommend while we are on the
[51:25] topic, Jules one, however, I've always found to be more
[51:28] compelling. And one specific one I would
[51:32] actually go with. I mean, like everybody's heard
[51:34] of Around the World in 80 Days. So I'm not going to say that.
[51:36] I would say Journey to the Center of the Earth and 20,000
[51:39] Leagues Under the Sea. These two are two of my favorite
[51:42] Jews, one books. So adding that on to Aditya's
[51:45] list of books. I'm also going to recommend a
[51:49] Malayalam movie that I saw just very recently.
[51:52] It's called Rifle Club when it comes out on OTD.
[51:55] You can watch, I think it's ending a theatrical run by the
[51:57] time we're recording this, but it's a good fun survival movie.
[52:01] And Malayalam movies have been hitting it out of the park since
[52:03] last year. So definitely go take a watch of
[52:07] that rifle club. And that's all the time we have
[52:10] for this episode. Thank you all for listening in.
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